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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Sickening.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6h

Trump will sit for a “routine yearly check up” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the White House announced, ahead of a possible trip to the Middle East.

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 11h

I really can’t get enough. They’ll definitely start outlawing these costumes soon. 😂🤣

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 11h

She's weak, and actually, that is a good thing.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 11h

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lm100.bsky.social @lm100.bsky.social · 11h

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11h

Zoomed-in photo of AG Pam Bondi's notes. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

Not legal answers. Not facts. Not accountability.

Just a file of attacks and instructions to smear Sheldon Whitehouse, pivot to “dark money,” and even drag Epstein and Reid Hoffman into unrelated questions.👇

It’s performance.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Alan Smithee DGA @alansmitheedga.bsky.social · 24d

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 14h

Trump said he didn’t write the infamous birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that referenced ‘a wonderful secret,’ claiming, ‘It’s not the way I speak.’ Unfortunately for Trump, Jimmy Kimmel Live! brought the receipts.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 14h

They’ve illegally sent masked goons and the military to terrorize our cities, murdered Venezuelan fishermen, shut down the government, fired career civil servants, dressed down our top military brass, arrested the former FBI director on bogus charges—and we’re STILL talking about the Epstein case…

a group of people are standing in a line and one of them is wearing a hat that says ' tc ' on it

ALT: a group of people are standing in a line and one of them is wearing a hat that says ' tc ' on it

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M.F. Luder4077 (he/him) @callmejon1989.bsky.social · 13h

What a Freak, JFC 🤦‍♂️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 14h

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M.F. Luder4077 (he/him) @callmejon1989.bsky.social · 13h

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 14h

🤣🤣 seems legit!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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